[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 147 (Tuesday, July 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39525-39526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-19037]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WO-220-1020-PB-24 1A]


Reinstatement of Approved Information Collection, OMB Approval 
Number 1004-0068

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requests the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) to reinstate an existing approval to collect information 
that authorizes and documents the cooperative construction of range

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improvement projects on public lands. BLM will use form 4120-67 
(Cooperative Range Improvement Agreement) under the authority of 
Sections 2, 4, and 9 of the Taylor Grazing Act, Section 5 of the Public 
Rangelands Improvement Act and implementing regulations found at 43 CFR 
4110.2-3(a)(2), 4120, and 4140.1(b)(8).

DATES: You must submit your comments to BLM at the address below on or 
before October 1, 2001. BLM will not necessarily consider any comments 
after the above date.

ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to: Regulatory Affairs Group (630), 
Bureau of Land Management, Mailstop 401LS, 1849 C Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20240.
    You may send comments via Internet to: [email protected]. Please 
include ``ATTN: 1004-0068'' and your name and return address in your 
Internet message.
    You may deliver comments to the Bureau of Land Management, 
Administrative Record, Room 401, 1620 L Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    Comments will be available for public review at the L Street 
address during regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.) Monday 
through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You may contact Ken Visser on (202) 
452-7743 (Commercial or FTS). Persons who use a telecommunication 
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay 
Service (FIRS) on 1-800-877-8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to 
contact Mr. Visser.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 CFR 1320.12(a) requires that we provide a 
60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning a collection of 
information to solicit comments on:
    (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper functioning of the agency, including whether the information 
will have practical utility;
    (b) The accuracy of our estimates of the information collection 
burden, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions we 
use;
    (c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information collected; and
    (d) Ways to minimize the information collection burden on those who 
are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.
    BLM administers the livestock grazing program consistent with land-
use plans, multiple-use objectives, sustained yield, environmental 
values, economic considerations, and other factors. To do so, BLM may 
enter into a cooperative range improvement agreement with a person, 
organization, or other government entity to install, use, maintain and/
or modify permanent range improvements or rangeland developments to 
achieve management or resource condition objectives.
    BLM will use Form 4120-6 to document cooperative project 
development agreements between BLM and grazing permittees/lessees for 
projects intended to enhance the livestock management infrastructure on 
public lands. Also, BLM will use Form 4120-6 to document agreements 
between BLM and others such as State wildlife agencies, conservation 
organizations or entities wishing to contribute resources to 
cooperatively develop and/or maintain a project on public lands 
intended to further other land-use plan goals. Form 4120-6 requests the 
information to identify the cooperator(s), the range improvement 
project, and the expenditures by the cooperator(s) and the BLM to 
construct the proposed project.
    Based upon BLM experience and recent tabulations of activity, we 
process approximately 588 Cooperative Range Improvement Agreements each 
year. The public reporting information collection burden takes 20 
minutes. Depending on the size and complexity of the range project, 
some responses may take up to 60 minutes to complete. The estimated 
number of responses per year is 588. The estimated total annual burden 
is 196 hours.
    BLM will summarize all responses to this notice and include them in 
the request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of 
public record.

    Dated: June 20, 2001.
Michael H. Schwartz,
BLM Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-19037 Filed 7-30-01; 8:45 am]
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